Black screen upon VR Editor load - unusable.

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Hi there. I am attempting to use the VR editor in my Unreal Engine project but each time I launch I am sent to a black screen inside the headset. It appears to be an overlay, as opposed to no data streaming through, as each time I turn my head tiny, pixel-wide slits of my project are invisible. It is like I have a black square attached to my face.

Googling has yielded others with similar issues, but no solutions or even really answers. I don’t know where to even begin looking to solve this issue myself, or what a potential cause could be. I am hoping this can be solved quickly as I really need this feature for a project/demo I am doing.

I am running an i7 7700HQ, GTX 1060, and 32GB’s GDDR4 RAM. My HMD is an HTC Vive, along with the original Vive Base Stations and Vive Wands. I am running on OS version Windows 10 2004.

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hi!!
You need to (save) close your project, delete the ‘Saved’ folder and reload the project, the VR Editor should run from then on.,./ (Loading the VR Editor once in a project it seems to put something in the saved folder that makes it happy from then on,…)

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thank you for the answer, this worked for me in 4.23

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I am having the same issue with all versions of unreal engine at the moment. The main version of Unreal Engine I am using is Unreal Engine 5 and the solution you proposed is not working.